Description: Microsoft’s plan is to provide developers with the tools that will let them design an app once, then apply it across all of Microsoft’s Windows 8 platforms, even the Xbox game consoles eventually, with minimal extra effort. Source: The Globe and Mail Date: April 3, 2014 Microsoft’s new strategy for its flagging operating system empire is… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Microsoft
Microsoft’s New Scroogled Video Says Google Will Read Your Valentine’s
Description: Microsoft launched another anti-Google video this Valentine’s day as part of its “Scroogled” campaign. It’s not often that tech companies try to smear the competition, so why is Microsoft doing this now? Source: TechCrunch Date: February 10th, 2013 “Don’t want Google snooping on your Valentine?” That’s the question Microsoft is asking today in its… Read more »
Storage wars: Google, Dropbox and Microsoft fight for your files
Description: Google Drive, launched on Tuesday, is a long-awaited service from the company that stores all types of files in its cloud as well as copying them to all your devices. Source: globeandmail.com Date: April 28, 2012 Microsoft sought to steal Google’s thunder on Monday with an update to its SkyDrive cloud service. It too… Read more »
Erasing the Boundaries
Description: The biggest tech companies are no longer content simply to enhance part of your day. They want to erase the boundaries, do what the other big tech companies are doing and own every waking moment. Source: nytimes .com Date: Feb 12, 2012 In the old days, you listened to music on your iPod while… Read more »
Microsoft unveils a radically redesigned Windows 8
Description: Windows 8 is coming soon — and it looks nothing like the Windows you’re used to. Source: CNN .com. Date: Sept 14, 2011 Microsoft formally introduced Windows 8 on Tuesday to thousands of software developers gathered at the company’s annual Build conference in Anaheim, Calif. The software giant said it reimagined Windows for the… Read more »
What’s Driving Apple’s 10 Billion App Success?
Description: Apple’s iPhone App Store launched in July 2008. In just over two and a half years, iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad users have downloaded 10,000,000,000 applications for their iOS devices. Source: Informationweek.com Date: Jan 24 , 2011 “With more than … seven billion apps [downloaded] in the last year alone — the App Store… Read more »
Microsoft Steps Up Competition With Dynamics CRM 2011
Description: Hoping to take a bite out of Salesforce.com’s fast growth, Microsoft announced aggressive promotional pricing of $34 per user, per month. That’s well below the cost of Salesforce.com Source: Informationweek.com Date: Jan 18 , 2011 We give you full sales, service and marketing functionality in our standard service where Salesforce.com does not offer marketing functionality or… Read more »
Heat is on IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome as browser habits shift
Description: Browsers remain one of the Internet’s most crucial functions, Gavin says. They are the windows to the Internet, conduits to what users really want to see — be it a social network, application, video or document. Source: USA Today.com Date: Dec 2, 2010 The browser has become the primary way we all keep up… Read more »
The Google-Apple-Facebook Battle
Description: The battle for total world domination has moved well beyond the computer operating system, and even beyond the computer. The biggest contenders at the moment are Google ), Facebook and Apple. Source: Forbes.com Date: Nov 8, 2010 In the mid 1990s, when Microsoft seemed invincible, company leaders hung posters inside their offices with the letters “TWD” boldly emblazoned… Read more »
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Introduction to Information Systems, 3rd Canadian Binder Ready Version Update Edition
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